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A psychogenic disorder in which patients experience physiological symptoms, such as fits of violent emotion, paralysis, anesthesia, amnesias, and other neurological like symptoms, without obvious organic causes.

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Hysteria

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What Breuer’s method was called:

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Cathartic method

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A form of psychotherapy and a general psychological theory developed by Sigmund Freud.

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Psychoanalysis

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In Freudian theory, emotion-laden memories or thoughts that are out of conscious awareness and thus cause hysterical symptoms.

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Pathogenic Ideas

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Hysterical symptoms, interpreted by Freud as the result of emotional energy becoming strangulated and then converted to physical symptoms

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Conversions

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A transitional technique between hypnosis and free association, in which Sigmund Freud placed his hand on a patient’s forehead while assuring him or her that relevant memories would occur.

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Pressure Technique

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A technique used by Sigmund Freud in which one is asked to say, openly and honestly, the first thoughts and ideas that come to mind, without edit.

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Free association

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The prevention or expulsion from consciousness of anxiety-arousing thoughts or memories.

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Repression

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The mind is constantly confronted with irreconcilable demands from innate biology, the external world, and the moral sense r conscience.

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Intrapsychic conflict

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An early theory proposed by Freud and then abandoned, suggesting that all hysterics must have undergone sexual abuse as children.

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Seduction theory

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Responses that serve to protect a person against consciously entertaining psychologically dangerous pathogenic ideas.

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Defenses

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Freud’s most important book

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The Interpretation of Dreams

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The actual images, thoughts, and content of a dream as experienced by the dreamer; it is actually a transformation of the precipitating but more psychologically dangerous latent content.

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Manifest Content

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The hidden meaning of dreams that lies beneath the manifest content.

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Latent Content

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What did dreams represent?

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some element of the fulfillment of wishes

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Patients tended to transfer onto him, as the therapist, attributes of the important people from their past lives who were implicated in their neurotic symptoms.

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Transference

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The human mind is constantly beset by three kinds of demands that inevitably conflict with one another and that the mind’s major function is to resolve those conflicts as best it can.

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Freud’s general model of mind

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Freud’s three structures

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Id, Ego, Superego

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Freud’s book on defenses of the ego:

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The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

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The six defenses of the ego

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Displacement, projection, intellectualization, denial, rationalization, and identification.